U.K. Flies Cash to Cyprus For Its Troops

By

Nicholas Winning

March 19, 2013 3:42 p.m. ET

LONDON—The British government has sent a plane to Cyprus with €1 million ($1.3 million) on board in case its military personnel stationed there is in need of an emergency loan should cash machines and bank cards stop working during the country's bailout crisis, the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday.

The ministry said it is asking its personnel on the island if they want their salaries for March and future months paid into British...